Java - Olean, 2007 Part 1 - Horse Power and Ox Power

This is taken from eleven year old tapes, so I apologise in advance for any quality issues. I had almost forgotten what an amazing place was the island of Java. It had all the diversity of India mixed with seemingly never ending Cuban style sugar cane fields ... almost all steam rail served. At least it was like that still in 2007. Sadly, most of the steam power has since disappeared. However, I have an extensive record of the steam served mills from my visits there in 2006 and 2007. This is the first extract from that record and shows an unusual situation at a level crossing, where an ox cart (carrying an exceptional load) has to pull into a "lay-by" to allow two trains to pass, before venturing across the level crossing itself. It was filmed on the approaches to the Olean sugar mill.